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"Chasing Rainbows" in Albany: City Beautiful, City Practical 1900-1925

Department of Geography and Planning

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	Abstract

From 1900 to 1921 Albany, New York was run by a Republican machine embarrassed by an unsightly and unsanitary riverfront. Graft, engineering concerns, state mandates, and intractable railroads shaped an initial plan that was vetoed by the governor. Moving forward from this debacle, the machine hired Arnold Brunner, who developed a plan for Albany in the City Beautiful idiom. When the Democrats took over in 1922, they repudiated aesthetic planning as "chasing rainbows." However, practical and aesthetic discourses coexisted, serving different audiences and purposes, and each served in different ways to legitimate a vision of comprehensive planning in the early 1920s.

First published on September 19, 2008, doi:10.1177/1538513208319259

Journal of Planning History 2008;7:327.

A more recent version of this article appeared on November 1, 2008


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